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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
This shouldn't be a surprise. The guy was hot-trash away from Giordano that went far beyond playing his "off-side." As a big proponent of Brodie in years past, the fact that every single player looks great with Giordano and significantly less away, should be telling. Same stuff was being said about Hamilton when Giordano and Hamilton were the best defensive pairing in the league.
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It's not a surprise, because bad takes never surprise me.
Hot trash? So Brodie-Stone was a hot trash second pairing? Right. But lemme guess, Stone like Giordano carried Brodie. Well darn I didn't realize we had another Giordano and we were burying him on our third pair. And it was totally Brodie's fault Dennis Wideman was no longer an NHLer, too. We should bring Widey back now that we have Hanifin who would totally look great with him.
Brodie might have been so-called "hot trash" for a month or two last year. Let's not lie through our teeth and have that month or two represent his whole career away from Giordano. He's had success with Stone. He even had success with Deryk Engelland. And outside of a rough month or two he even had success with Hamonic (and Hamonic himself was not individually great early on as a Flame). He's had a ton of success with Russell. This year he has had success with Hanifin.
And Hamilton WAS a big part of the Giordano-Hamilton pair. Crazy thought but Dougie Hamilton is a good hockey player too. And there's only a certain extent to which you can keep trading away top pair defenseman. Last year we had three top pair defenseman and 0 top line right wingers. Now we have two top pair defensemen and 1 top line right winger. Giordano didn't carry Hamilton either, that's just the narrative du jour because Elias Lindholm has fit so well on a line with Gaudreau and Monahan that we haven't entirely missed Hamilton.